Linguistics

Narrative Absorption brings together research from the social sciences and Humanities to solve a number of mysteries: Most of us will have had those moments, of being totally absorbed in a book, a movie, or computer game.

This book is the first collective volume specifically devoted to the multifaceted phenomenon of intensification, which has been traditionally regarded as related to the expression of degree, scaling a quality downwards or upwards.

Explicitation has been studied as a Translation Universal in corpus-based translation studies by several scholars, yet its features in interpreting have only been mildly touched upon.

This book presents an interdisciplinary study that straddles four academic fields, namely, autobiography, stylistics, narratology and translation studies.

The philosophy of language of Robert Brandom is based on a theoretical structure composed of three main elements: the normative analysis of linguistic practices, the inferential characterization of conceptual contents and the expressive articulation of the relations between the former two.

Prototypical Argumentative Patterns reports about a research project started at the University of Amsterdam in 2012.

The purpose of this book is to contribute to our understanding of genre and genre variation in the Japanese language in order to bring to consciousness the nature of Japanese culture and the presuppositions, norms and values found within Japanese society.

The notion of voice has been used in a number of ways within Translation Studies.

Teaching Dialogue Interpreting is one of the very few book-length contributions that cross the research-to-training boundary in dialogue interpreting.

The book explores eleven debates held at the Bahraini Council of Representatives (or the Parliament) over 2007-2010 to comprehend how parliamentary discourse contributes towards identity formation within Bahraini society.

Any behavior that arouses, as swearing does, controversy, disagreement, disdain, shock, and indignation as often as it imbues passion, sincerity, intimacy, solidarity, and jocularity should be an obvious target of in-depth scholarship.

This ground-breaking book marks a milestone in the history of the newly developed field of Cultural Linguistics, a multidisciplinary area of research that explores the relationship between language and cultural conceptualisations.

This book offers a systematic study of the emergence and early development of compound nouns in first language acquisition from a cross-linguistic and typological perspective.

This volume is both a state-of-the-art display of current thinking on second language development as a complex system.

Located near Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, Palenque is a former Afro-Hispanic maroon community that has recently attracted much national and international attention.

Negation is one of the most discussed phenomena within linguistics, on all language levels though it never seems to be exhausted.

Pragmatics forms nowadays an integral part of the description not only of modern languages but also of ancient languages such as Latin and Ancient Greek.

In recent years, an increasing number of linguists have re-examined the question of whether markedness has explanatory power, or whether it is a phenomenon that begs explanation itself.

Language Acquisition in CLIL and Non-CLIL Settings builds a bridge between Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research (LCR) methodologies to take the evaluation of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) to a new level.

In the world today, bilingualism is more common than monolingualism.

This volume features a set of selected peer-reviewed articles, which represent research by some very prominent scholars and some promising researchers in the field.

Sonic Signatures is devoted to the representation of sound patterns and sound structures across a diverse range of typologically distinct languages with the overall aim of understanding the nature of linguistic data structures from a principled balance between representational economy and the interfaces of phonology with other domains, including acoustic and visual.

The case studies in this volume offer new insights into word order change.

Focusing on objects, this book aims at contributing to the on-going inquiry into modelling structures with missing arguments.

The volume provides original research and analyses of the multi-faceted conceptual and verbal process(es) of irony.

This volume explores potential paths in historical sociolinguistics, with a particular focus on the inter-related areas of methodological innovations, hitherto un- or under-explored textual resources, and theoretical advancements and challenges.

Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics contains a selection of 18 article reporting on research conducted in the past decade in which the institutional context in which argumentative discourse takes place is systematically taken into account.

The news we see daily is selected from among alternatives by journalists.

This book deals with the construction of the 'other' in European media at a time when the recently expanded EU is facing new political, economic and social challenges.

This book discusses transformations in the construction of culinary taste, lifestyle and class through cookbook language style in post-socialist Slovenia.

Cognitive research in translation and interpreting has reached a critical threshold of maturity that is triggering rapid expansion along exciting new paths that potentially lead to deeper connections with other disciplines.

Les unites linguistiques ayant pour fonction (paradoxale) de signifier une relation entre d'autres unites de discours, suscitent, depuis l'Antiquite, un interet toujours renouvele.

This volume presents an in-depth analysis of language variation in Jamaican radio newscasts and talk shows.

Contrastive Linguistics is an expanding field, as witnessed by the publication in recent years of an increasing number of monographs, collected volumes and journal articles.

In his foreword to the original edition of this classic of functionalism, typology and diachrony, Dwight Bolinger wrote: "e;I foresee it as one of the truly prizes statements of our current knowledge.

Using a concise and clear style, this book highlights insights from current syntactic theory and minimalism.

This collection advances the study of context-dependent characteristics of argumentative discourse by examining a variety of media genres in which text and image (and other semiotic modes) combine to create meaning.

The book tackles the sociobiological bases of Information Structure (IS) inquiring both its evidential and neurobiological underpinnings in human communication.

Metaphor and metonymy appeal to us because they evoke mental images in unique but still recognisable ways.

How does the concept of time, elusive and inconceivable as it may be, lend itself to verbal creativity?

Over the last three decades, Brazilian Portuguese bare nominals have turned into a hot topic in the cross-linguistic study of nominal syntax and semantics.

Threatening is among the less pleasant "e;things we do with words"e;, but, together with other conflictive speech acts, it seems to play a central role in communication.

This book deals with the construction of diverse forms of humor in everyday oral, written, and mediatized interactions.

Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics offers a panorama of current research into multiple varieties of Spanish from several different regions (Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, Costa Rica, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras), Catalan, Brazilian Portuguese, as well as varieties in contact with English and Purepecha.

This volume shows the relevance of the concepts of 'place' and 'belonging' for understanding the dynamics of identification through language.

This book is a research monograph divided into two parts.

The articles in the present volume offer an updated view of the breadth of theoretical and empirical research being carried on in the different subgroups of the Afroasiatic phylum.

The use of corpora has conventionally been envisioned as being either corpus-based or corpus-driven.

This collection of original contributions dealing with Hispanic contact linguistics covers an array of Spanish dialects distributed across North, South, and Central America, the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Bosporus.

This collection brings together leading names in the field of bilingualism research to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Studies in Bilingualism series.